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So I "met" Darren Chiacchia today ...

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  • #41
    Originally posted by nextyear View Post
    "Boy its getting so a guy can not bend over to put his boots on around here"


    Sure you can...as long as there is dinner involved.

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    • #42
      Mid 90's 15 years ago you're hating on a guy because of how he behaved 15 years ago - time to let it go...and now I'm taking my own advice...

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      • #43
        Originally posted by gottagrey View Post
        Mid 90's 15 years ago you're hating on a guy because of how he behaved 15 years ago - time to let it go...



        What if a person has been well and truly hateful from mid nineties, before and beyond in perpetuity?

        I will not “let go” the impression I got when DC all but screamed at a volunteer who dared tell him he was on deck for show jumping.

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        • #44
          Originally posted by gottagrey View Post
          Mid 90's 15 years ago you're hating on a guy because of how he behaved 15 years ago - time to let it go...
          I never said I hate Darren, actually I have always got on with him with no problems on a personal level, I think he is a beautiful rider but a terrible horseman.
          My story was a point that the accident did not have any bearing on his lack of people skills.

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          • #45
            Originally posted by nextyear View Post
            I never said I hate Darren, actually I have always got on with him with no problems on a personal level, I think he is a beautiful rider but a terrible horseman.
            My story was a point that the accident did not have any bearing on his lack of people skills.

            "hating on" = bashing. And agree w/ you; my point is 15+- years of harboring ill will towards a person is just not healthy and a waste of energy.. seems I'm being a bit of a hypocrite on my own advice..

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            • #46
              I can't decide whether this whole thing is revolting or pathetic. It's sad to see the wheels come off anyone's life no matter how one feels about that person.

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              • #47
                Gottagrey

                I have had both a TBI (a couple of years ago thankfully mostly recovered) and cared for a mother who descended into the depths of the "long death" for almost 10 years. My thoughts are with you, it's a difficult path.

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                • #48
                  I hear the train a'comin...
                  It's comin' round the bend....
                  Proud & Permanent Student Of The Long Road
                  Read me: EN (http://eventingnation.com/author/annemarch/) and HJU (http://horsejunkiesunited.com/author/holly-covey/)

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                  • #49
                    Geez! This sport is chock full of assholes... it makes the ongoing Darren bashing is almost boring!

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                      #50
                      Originally posted by InVA View Post
                      Geez! This sport is chock full of assholes... it makes the ongoing Darren bashing is almost boring!
                      I've actually met quite a few very friendly, helpful trainers and other people associated with eventing. As I said I'm new to it. I was just sharing as a lot of people do on COTH. I didn't saying anything hateful, just my first impression of DC, who is a big name to someone like me from outside the box.

                      Life is all about first impressions, it takes more to change a negative first impression, than it would, say he acted like a professional and gave me a good one. Not that anyone or him for the matter cares, but he also lost a potential client by acting that way. I'd rather just be a nice, courteous human being to people, treat them the way I'd like to be treated and all
                      - paintmare


                      Horse Eden Eventing - A Virtual Eventing Escape

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                      • #51
                        If one has issues with the public approaching one's stabling too closely, one ought to refrain from renting a facility adjacent to a public park.

                        A blow to the head has nothing to do with that.
                        "It's like a Russian nesting doll of train wrecks."--CaitlinandTheBay

                        ...just settin' on the Group W bench.

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                        • #52
                          When someone meets God, they always have nothing but amazing things to say. Surely this whole encounter is nothing but a lie at the least and blasphemy at the worst.
                          Thus do we growl that our big toes have, at this moment, been thrown up from below!

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                          • #53
                            Originally posted by gottagrey View Post
                            This just takes the cake... apparently part of the head injury damaged the area of the brain that controls the personality. I really hope that none of you suffers a traumatic injury that leaves you without all of your faculties. I really hope than none of you has to go through watching a loved one lose their mind.. I'm going through that now. Honestly it's maddening and it's heartbreaking. One day your parent is the normal sane parent who you looked up to, the next day that same person is a total wackjob... you don't know why and you can't fix it. You can't heal or mend a sick mind w/ a 2 week persciption of antibiotics. Sometimes the medications make it better, sometimes makes it worse, sometimes makes the person a zombi. So continue to make fun of this person - it obviously makes you feel good about yourselves.
                            I HAD A TBI - a bad one, the coma and everything. I know all about what happens, personally - I lived it. I also know how he behaved, personally, before the accident - it is the same. How does he stay in business behaving like that?

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                            • #54
                              Originally posted by retreadeventer View Post
                              I hear the train a'comin...
                              It's comin' round the bend....



                              And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when

                              Tamara in TN
                              Production Acres,Pro A Welsh Cobs
                              I am one of the last 210,000 remaining full time farmers in America.We feed the others.

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                              • #55
                                Originally posted by Tamara in TN View Post
                                And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when

                                Tamara in TN
                                I'm stuck in Folsom prison, and time keeps draggin' on
                                But that train keeps a rollin' on down to San Antone..

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                                • #56
                                  Alright, stop! Collaborate and listen! Ice is back with a brand new invention! Something...grabs a hold of me tightly. Flows like a harpoon daily and nightly! Will it ever stop? Yo, I don't know. Turn off the lights...and I'll glow. To the extreme, I rock a mic like a vandal! Light up the stage, I wax a chump like a candle...
                                  Thus do we growl that our big toes have, at this moment, been thrown up from below!

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                                  • #57
                                    Lex, I most sincerely hope you had to look up those lyrics.
                                    Against My Better Judgement: A blog about my new FLF OTTB
                                    Do not buy a Volkswagen. I did and I regret it.
                                    VW sucks.

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                                    • #58
                                      Originally posted by amastrike View Post
                                      Lex, I most sincerely hope you had to look up those lyrics.
                                      I remember those lyrics... sad, I know.

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                                      • #59
                                        Originally posted by amastrike View Post
                                        Lex, I most sincerely hope you had to look up those lyrics.
                                        He totally did not! I know these things.

                                        A friend's boss asked him how he was doing one day. His reply was the first verse of Gin and Juice, by Snoop Dogg - memorized for no good reason. (I was going to post it, but am to much of a prude, apparently). His boss never asked him how he was doing again....

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                                        • #60
                                          Originally posted by amastrike View Post
                                          Lex, I most sincerely hope you had to look up those lyrics.
                                          Most people who are within several years of my age know those lyrics by heart because they grew up hearing them.
                                          Thus do we growl that our big toes have, at this moment, been thrown up from below!

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